Alexa Demie Trivia | 40 facts about the actress

Alexa Demie is a young actress, mostly known for her role as Maddy to the hit HBO series, «Euphoria».

Let’s find out more about her!

1. Alexa Demie is an American actress.
2. Demie was born in Los Angeles, California.
3. She grew up in Atwater Village.
4. She was raised by her mother, Rose Mendez, a make-up artist whose family immigrated to Los Angeles from Mexico when she was an infant and who got pregnant with Demie at an “extremely young” age, as well as her grandmother and aunts.
5. She has said she “didn’t grow up with the best male figures in [her] life” or “much respect for men”.
6. She lived in an apartment across the street from a meth lab and next door to several meth addicts.
7. Fun fact: The Black Eyed Peas’ studio was around the corner from her house.
8. According to her, there was frequent fighting and yelling in her home growing up, and she ran away from home as a teenager in order to escape a toxic family environment.
9. However, she has described her family as “very supportive” and “there for each other”.
10. From elementary to high school, Demie was bullied, describing herself in high school as “quite a loner”.
11. She got involved with performing arts at her high school during her senior year.
12. While in high school, she spent her time bedazzling sunglasses that she purchased from Downtown Los Angeles, which led to her creating Mainframe, a line of sunglasses that she initially sold at a store on Melrose Avenue where a friend worked.
13. The brand eventually became popular overseas, with Mainframe glasses being worn by G-Dragon, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, and Amber Rose and appearing in Vogue Korea, though she soon stopped making them due to not being paid for her designs.
14. Also in high school, she started writing songs and designed a costume for one of Minaj’s first music videos.
15. Alexa Demie had plans to become a fashion designer, but, after attending orientation for an art school in New York, decided against it.
16. She is known for her role as Maddy Perez in the HBO teen drama series Euphoria
17. Alexa Demie made her feature film debut with a minor role in the comedy-drama Brigsby Bear (2017).
18. She then went on to star in the coming-of-age film Mid90s (2018) and the drama film Waves (2019).
19. In 2019, Demie legally changed her name.
20. Alexa Demie is also a singer and songwriter.
21. Alexa is a singer-songwriter, and released her first single, “Girl Like Me,” in 2016. In September 2021, she dropped her next song, “Leopard Limo (Archive LL11).” She’s also featured in Pearl’s 2016 track, “Turnin’ Tricks.” According to a 2019 interview with The New York Times, Alexa is working on her first EP.
22. According to Cosmopolitan UK, Alexa has been dating 34-year-old Christian Berishaj since 2017.
23. Her partner is a singer-songwriter who goes by his stage name, JMSN, and has worked with major artists such as Kendrick Lamar. Their relationship appears to be super private, but Alexa has been featured in a couple of his song’s music videos, including “Slide” and “Act Like I’m Not Here.”
24. Alexa’s Euphoria costar Sydney Sweeney revealed in an interview on The Late Late Show with James Corden that her toe was stepped on and “exploded” during the final day of filming.
25. Sydney did not initially reveal which cast member accidentally broke it, but she eventually spilled. “In one of the episodes, a character that’s very upset with Cassie right now accidentally stepped on me and it broke my toe in three places,” she shared.
26. She took a phone-free vacation to Mexico the week Euphoria aired on HBO.
27. Alexa told Vogue France that when the first season of Euphoria premiered in June 2019, she traveled to Tulum, Mexico, in an attempt to have a phone-free and television-free vacation. She actually mentioned: “Until I started to watch the live reactions. We were trending number three worldwide and number one in the U.S. It was too much not to look!”
28. She appeared in shows like Ray Donovan and Love, but not in major roles.
29. She told People En Español that she’s a very private person who likes her space and more-so uses her Instagram as a digital mood board to “create characters.”
30. At one point she helped Nicki Minaj’s stylist and helped design looks for some of Nicki’s earlier videos.
31. Alexa recently collaborated with Balenciaga on three custom looks for the night of the Season 2 premiere of Euphoria.
32. Clothing design isn’t her only focus. She also designed a whole school for children that nurtures and honors their creativity, and she hopes to get it built one day in the future.
33. Alexa is in the process of producing a feature film about her mom’s life, who immigrated from Mexico to LA as a baby. The film will follow Rose’s life in the ’80s Hollywood club scene, with Alexa playing her mother.
34. Alexa almost quit acting before Euphoria because she hated the auditioning process and because it became increasingly difficult to land any roles.
35. She now avoids the stereotypical “spicy Latina” roles and says she had a long talk with her team about that.
36. On top of making her own music videos, Alexa has also appeared in music videos for artists such as Azealia Banks in “ATM jam (Kaytranada edition)”…
37. Prior to landing Euphoria, Alexa auditioned for a role in the 2018 film Never Goin’ Back, which was directed by Augustine Frizzell. She didn’t get the role, but Augustine liked Alexa and told her they’d work together in the future. Augustine was later hired to direct the pilot of Euphoria, and was in the audition room when Alexa auditioned for the part of Maddy. So here they are!
38. That iconic black dress she wore in the Season 2 premiere episode of Euphoria was fully her idea. She told W Magazine that she wasn’t connecting to anything the stylist presented to her at the time, so she looked to her friend, designer Aidan Euan, and picked out the black dress herself. Kim Kardashian had pulled it first but hadn’t worn it, so it eventually made its way to Alexa.
39. Aidan, who owns the clothing brand Akna, also designed the matching outfits Maddy and Cassie wore in Season 2, Episode 3.
40. She sees Mexican actor María Félix as one of her first inspirations and would love to play her in a future biopic.